Bug#634259: gnome-session: stop-multiple-users dialog fails to clear screen

[Adam Borowski]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:41:10AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lundi 18 juillet 2011 à 11:26 +0200, Adam Borowski a écrit : 
> > If something sensitive happened to be on the screen when logging off, it
> > will be left for everyone to see, not protected by the screen saver (as the
> > session is already gone by that time).  For example, I just had a
> > gnome-terminal window with a private mail sent on Friday just before leaving
> > work -- if a co-worker happened to wander by, that stuff was not meant to be
> > seen.
> > 
> > This can be reproduced by sshing in from another machine (a legitimate
> > multiple login), then repeatedly trying to shut down.  After a number of
> > tries, one of windows will remain on the screen.  Curiously, it seems that
> > it's never one that was on the current desktop you were on at the time of
> > logoff.  Window decoration is gone but the contents are still there.
> 
> Does it happen only with gnome-terminal? Applications are supposed to
> exit when they receive the signal from the session manager - that’s why
> you don’t see window decorations, metacity having properly quit.

Hrm, sorry for the delay, I was busy at work doing, well, work.

I just reproduced this with unison-gtk, I guess with enough tries other
programs would fail too.  This time, window decoration was intact.

The first machine has metacity + gtk-window-decorator, the other compiz +
emerald, so window manager issues can be probably ruled out.


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